UWF trustees plan emergency meeting Monday


  • September 13, 2014
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education

An emergency meeting of the University of West Florida Board of Trustees has been called for Monday morning.

The board will discuss a "resolution of support" for President Judy Bense, according to the agenda.

WEAR-TV reports that the faculty senate at the university gave Bense a “no-confidence” vote. Bense has been the president since mid-2008.

But based on agenda documents from the most recent Board of Trustees meeting, the board seems satisfied with the job Bense is doing.

The posted agenda from the Sept. 9 Board of Trustees meeting indicates 11 members completed an evaluation form on Bense. Three gave her an A; five gave her a B; three gave her a C.

Of the additional comments given, most were positive and supportive, while acknowledging that retention and graduation rates at the school lag among state universities.

Bense earned her highest grades in community engagement and service, where seven of 11 trustees gave her an A.

You can see the evaluation here.

Last year the Florida university system’s Board of Governors ranked the state’s 11 universities on a series of performance metrics.

UWF scored 21 out of 50 points, putting it last. Schools that score less than 25 points are penalized by having 1 percent of their recurring state funding taken away.

Read here about what Bense said her strategies would be to improve the school’s showing in these metrics, especially the six-year graduation rate and the retention of sophomores with a 2.0 GPA or better.

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